Tornado Fruits

Tornado Fruits Overview

Tornado Fruits is an online slot game created by BGaming. This slot has an unusual tornado theme and features an array of fruit symbols intermingled with lucky 7s and Bitcoin icons. The game has five reels and 100 pay lines.

It also has a wide betting range that starts at 20p and goes up to £15. Players will find upon opening the game that things are set out in a straightforward way that makes setting up and playing the game easy and quick. Regarding the visuals and graphics, things are relatively simple, with few elements that will distract players. The RTP for this game sits relatively high at 97.2%.

The features for Tornado Fruits begin with stacked symbols. In this game, whole stacks of matching symbols are liable to fall, occupying both reels and rows. This feature is triggered completely at random and helps players score much larger combination wins. The next feature is the expanding wild bonus. In addition to substituting for other icons to help score wins, the wild in this game also expands to fill the entire reel when it lands, boosting the likelihood of scoring with it.

Finally, there is also a risk game which allows you to risk the winnings of any spin to try and grow your payout. This is an optional bonus and takes the form of a card game. All features will be explained in more detail later on in the review.

Theme and Symbols

Although this game says it has a tornado theme, there isn’t much evidence of any tornados in the game itself. Instead, you are greeted with a space-like theme with simple, slightly plush-looking symbols. To look at the board and the symbols therein, you’d more likely say that this is a classic theme with fruits and diamonds.

Perhaps the tornado aspect of this game is a reference to the revolution of the reels and how that movement mimics the natural spiralling of a tornado. Whatever the intention behind the name and the appearance of the game, it appears rather basic and relatively low budget compared to some of the amazing visual effects of other competing online slots.

The background for this game is an image of space with a glowing area above the reels, which could maybe be the light emitted from a faraway galaxy. Dotted around the rest of the screen are several white stars that give the image its space-like quality. As a static image, not much else can be said about this background apart from that it provides a pleasant neutral image for the action on the reels to contrast against.

The playing board for this game is a simple blue reel set with a neon title at the top of the reels.
The symbols are split into low-paying, high-paying and special symbols. The low-paying icons are the grapes, melons, lucky seven and bitcoin symbol. The bitcoin icon is the most valuable of these, paying out at 10x the stake for the top combination. On the other hand, the more valuable symbols are the golden bells and green diamonds. Although technically scatters, these symbols are cash symbols.

The golden bell pays out 20x the stake for a bell on reels 1, 3 and 5. The green diamond, on the other hand, pays out regardless of position and pays up to 100x the stake for five on the board. The only true special is the wild, which is an orange icon with wild written on it.

Game Play

Tornado Fruits is played on a 5-reel, 4-row machine with 100 fixed pay lines. To win combinations, players must land three or more matching symbols on pay lines moving from left to right, starting from the leftmost reel.

The betting range for Tornado Fruits is 20p to £15 per spin. To adjust their bet levels, players can toggle their stakes up and down using the tool located at the bottom left-hand side of the screen.
Further information, including a short tutorial and a display of the paytable, can be found via the menu button in the right-hand corner of the screen. The spin and auto spin buttons are located in the centre of the screen.

Volatility for this slot is rated in the high range. The return to player percentage for Tornado Fruits is 97.2%, which is way above average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 3,000x your stake.

Features

The first available bonus in this game is the stacked symbols feature. This bonus is triggered completely at random, bringing stacks of matching symbols onto the board, covering both reels and rows. When this happens, players stand to find many more wins and larger ones at that.
The next feature is the expanding wild bonus. The wild in this game can substitute for other icons in the game to help score wins. In addition, it will always expand to fill the reel it lands on. This means players are much more likely to score wins using it. Again, this is a bonus that is activated utterly at random.

Finally, this game also has a mini-risk game. When you win a spin, the game will give you the option of trying to boost the size of your winnings in a risky game. This game takes the form of a mini card game where the player has to try and guess the suit or colour of the card.

Choosing to guess the colour gives you 2x the winnings if you win. Choosing to guess the suit can lead to 4x the winnings. However, if you lose either of these, you lose all your winnings for the spin. You can keep guessing multiple hands and boosting the size of your winnings, however, only to a point.

Conclusion

Although this game might not be much to look at, it does perform pretty well regarding the win potential. This is driven mostly by the very high RTP, which at 97.2% is way higher than the industry standard of 96%.

This, combined with the decent top win, could see players recouping healthily on their investment. In terms of entertainment, though, features and graphics really let this game down. You might have to be a bit of a purist to really enjoy this online slot.